The Deal
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"Cambria!" Emma gasped.
Chris immediately shoved Emma off, and Cambria started running. Tears streaming down her face.
Cambria stormed out of Mike's house and kept running until she could no longer hear Chris's shouts behind her.
She strolled on the sidewalk and when she turned the corner she ran right into a someone.
"Shit. My bad. Are you ok?" Cambria looked up into the chest that ran into her. Perhaps it was a dark voice or how his light brown eye glowed from the street light.
"Hello? You are worrying me. Do you need to go to the hospital?"
Maybe it was the pain for the betrayal of the people she loved most. Or the stress of being perfect.
Cambria lifted her hands to the stranger's face and kissed him.
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